News &amp; Features - April 2012

Fort Collins resident Elizabeth Fuller, back, and Anita Chacon of Loveland look at Loveland Rotary Clubs Scholarship Winners' paintings on display at the Loveland Museum/Gallery during the Governor's Invitational Art Show and Sale on Saturday, April 28, 2012.

Loveland-based artist Pedro Ramos, right, chats with artist Charles Ewing of Antonito, Colo. during the Governor's Invitational Art Show and Sale at the Loveland Museum/Gallery on Saturday, April 28, 2012.

Friends of the Loveland Library volunteers, from left to right, Nick Baker, 15, Sarah Baker, 12, and Marcus Hill, 14, stock books during the Spring Book Sale in the 4-H Building at the Ranch on Saturday, April 28, 2012. The sale continues today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

David B. Glanz works on a sculpture of a St. Bernard dog Friday while giving a sculpture demonstration at the Loveland Museum/Gallery. His work will be shown at the Colorado Governor's Invitational Show & Sale.

Harrison Hand is making a movie about a genetically engineered race of reptilian hybrids who plan to take over earth. He is asking local ladies to be in the film and get their hair cut on camera. The hair is being designed into angelic dolls like this one to be sold as collectors items with the money going to charity.

Loveland Classical Schools first-grader Allison Goss, 6, giggles as her science teacher Ian Stout lifts a balloon off her head and her hair stands up Friday during the school's first Colonial to American Revolution Day. Students were learning about static electricity by rubbing balloons on their heads.

Standing in front of his Loveland home, Anthony DeTomasi, a resident in the Taft Farms neighborhood, talks Thursday about how he other residents in the subdivision are worried about lower-priced offerings being built in their higher-end neighborhood.

Six-year-old Thomas Dechant, middle, plays a crabwalk game with Morgan Madrid, 10, left, and teacher Jenn Brunner during the Born to be a Reader Family Literacy Carnival on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at Conrad Ball Middle School.

Nevaeh Jabalera, 4, left, and Bianca Garner, 5, play a leaping game with Morgan Madrid, 10, who's dressed as the Dr. Seuss character the Cat in the Hat during the Born to be a Reader Family Literacy Carnival on Thursday at Conrad Ball Middle School.

Conrad Ball Middle School sixth-grader Alex Gray, 12, left, helps Riley Vance, 5, front right, and her twin sister, Carly as they try out hula hoops at one of the stations set up for the Born to be a Reader Family Literacy Carnival on Thursday, April 26, 2012.

Conrad Ball Middle School sixth-graders Dusty Bergland, 12, right, and Anna Mueller, 12, assist Tyler Jamison, 5, Jackson Jamison, 6, and Jayna Jamison, 2, as they make a little book on a computer at the school during the Born to be a Reader Family Literacy Carnival on Thursday, April 26, 2012. Looking on are Traci and Jason Jamison.

Several docks jut out into the water Thursday in the southeast pond of the Agilent Open Space in Loveland.

Aryana Landis, 6, peeks her head out the window of a street painting truck during Children's Day.

Lily Ehle, 2, walks around Wednesday during Children's Day.

Thomas Williams Jr., 2, tries to decide which activity to try next during Children's Day.

Sabastian Arrington, 4, climbs up into a drag box as his brother Oscar Arrington, 6, waits his turn during Children's Day.

Amy Bullett, 4, left, and Sarah Bullett, 6, have fun behind the wheel of a snow plow during Children's Day.

Barrett Thalman, 2, front, Will Thalman, 4, center, and Brooklyn Thalman, 2, go through the bike skills course on scooters Wednesday during Children's Day in Loveland.

Breakaway Cycles owner Rich Panozzo, left, rings up a sale to Loveland resident Andy Artzberger on Tuesday afternoon at the bike shop located at 2237 W. Eisenhower Blvd. Larimer County officials will reduce a sales tax to pay for the county courthouse earlier than planned.

Loveland artist Kerri Ertman, right, laughs with Big Thompson Elementary School fifth-grader Beau Farago, 11, as he tells her he added a mustache to the ice cream bowl on his collage piece Tuesday during the Thompson School District Shadows in the Arts program at Namaqua Elementary School. She told Beau "When all else fails put a mustache on ice cream!"

Mikayla Pennock, 11, a Coyote Ridge fifth-grader, cuts pieces of tissue paper while creating a collage Tuesday during the school district's Shadows in the Arts program at Namaqua Elementary school in Loveland.

A Thompson Valley High School student sprints to catch his bus Monday after school in Loveland.

Dean Russell Thompson explains the wood cutting process to design an artistic print. Each color is cut individually and then registered onto paper and run through a press. Thompson is one of many artists who will be featured in the Governor's Invitational Art Show and Sale.

Two drilling rigs, just inside Weld County a mile east of Centerra on Monday, illustrate the encroachment of gas and oil production in the vicinity of Loveland.

Eight-year-old Liam Adams poses with his mother Amanda on Friday, April 20, 2012 outside the Loveland Museum/gallery in downtown Loveland. Liam was born with 10 different heart defects in the structure of his heart and has been in and out of hospitals since he was born.

Loveland resident Liz Ansell uses a stick to dislodge a piece of trash while volunteering during the annual spring waterway cleanup along the Chubbuck Ditch near the Chilson Recreation Center.

Gus Waneka, 18, left, and Chad Eberl, 17, toss a metal pole with a concrete base up on the bank of the Chubbuck Ditch after fishing it out of the water during the annual spring waterway cleanup Saturday, April 21, 2012.

Thompson Valley High School seniors Emily Erickson, 18, left, and Shannon Galligan, 18, haul garbage from the Chubbuck Ditch near the Chilson Recreation Center while volunteering during the city of Loveland's annual spring waterway cleanup event.

Volunteers spread out along a stretch of the Chubbuck Ditch near the Chilson Recreation Center during the annual spring waterway cleanup. Front from left are Kyle Kluherz, 18, Riley McLeran, 17, Sara Trout, 18, and Molly Shea, 18, who were among a group of students from Thompson Valley High School who turned out for the event.

Loveland resident Bob Scott stands at the top of a stone staircase recently built along the shore of Flatiron Reservoir as part of a Fishing is Fun grant to make access easier for people fishing along the banks of the reservoir. Scott and other members of the Loveland Fishing Club provided volunteer labor for the improvement project.

Loveland Fishing Club members volunteer their labor Thursday, April 19, 2012 at Flatiron Reservoir where improvements are being made with funds from a Fishing is Fun grant. From left are Mike Scheber, Tom Miller, and Jim Giles.

A group from Turner Middle School works together during an action planning session about school safety and bullying on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at Berthoud High School as part of a youth leadership conference. At bottom front is Maddie Rusk, 13, and back from left are Chris DeSousa, 12, Wyatt Stratmeyer, 12, Evan Poll, 12, Ben Hardy, 12, Kate Bender, 13, and TMS assistant principal Christine Smith.

Berthoud High School freshmen walk together down a hallway at the end of the school day Wednesday, April 18, 2012 which was also Wear Your PJs to School Day to put bullying to rest. From left are Kurt Hucal, 15, Katie Rice, 14, Annika Boyer, 15, Rachel Shaw, 14, Alli Levine, 15, and Lauren Schiller, 14. The school's No Place For Hate group had activities all week long to raise about bullying awareness and prevention.

An osprey flies away from it's roost Friday at Equalizer Lake at the High Plains Environmental Center in Loveland. At the High Plains Environmental Center oil and gas reserves more than a mile under the preserve are the target of petroleum giant Anadarko Corp.

Levi Benedict, a member of the Independent Order of the Oddfellows, shovels dirt as he and Ralph Trenary, right, and another Oddfellow member plant Bosnian pine trees at the Thompson Park at Fourth Street and Lincoln Avenue in Loveland on Friday in honor of Arbor Day.

042012 NWS PTI factory-cy.JPG Kelly Hart, operations manager of the new PTI Group modular housing factory in Johnstown, talks to visitors during a tour of the facility Thursday afternoon. Behind him is the start of a housing unit, with floor joists and insulation laid down. (Photo by Craig Young)

Anthony Rodriguez, 9, left, readies his fishing pole while fishing with his sister Olivia, 11, and brother Jesse, 6, on Thursday, April 19, 2012 at North Lake Park. The siblings are from Cheynne, Wyo. and were in Loveland visiting their grandmother Terrie Chiquito.

Standing at the Lake Dowdy campground at Red Feather Lakes, Dan Kipervaser, a forester with the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service, talks about the new saplings, like the one in the foreground, that they are planting in an effort to replace trees removed by bettle kill.

Six-year-old Jack Laugel, right, holds a plant he got from The Home Depot booth while his mother Mindy Laugel, middle, gets a free massage from massage therapist Jan Brown of The Spa at Scruples during the Loveland Chamber of Commerce's Business Expo on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at The Ranch.

A crew from CG&S work on a new concrete sidewalk and gutter Tuesday on 29th Street near Lake Drive in Loveland. From front to back they are Geno Andrade, Rodney Villegas, Pete Pedro, Joe Romero, Ivan Ortega and Ray Mungia, right. Crews will be working on concrete repairs between Taft Avenue and Garfield Street and replacing a portion of the water line under 29th street between Colorado Avenue and the outlet canal from Lake Loveland. They hope to have the project complete within 60 days.

Family of Claude Stansberry, including his wife Mary, center, and children smile as others share fond memories about him Monday during a celebration of life at Faith Church in Loveland. Stansberry served as the superintendent in the Thompson School District from 1969-1980 and Stansberry Elementary Shool was named in honor of him.

Painted wooden blocks that represent quilt squares like this one hanging at The Heart of the Earth in downtown Loveland Monday are for a quilt trail that the Colorado Quilt Council is doing through northern Colorado. The squares are hanging at different downtown businesses. Paul Davis of Loveland, right, shops at The Heart of the Earth.

Lifetree Cafe host Jobe Lewis, back, leads a discussion during a meeting on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at Group Publishing, 1515 Cascade Ave. in Loveland.

Participants in a Lifetree Cafe event, from left, Kathy Limstrom, Barbara Miller and Laura Stout discuss a topic during a meeting on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at Group Publishing, 1515 Cascade Ave. in Loveland.